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Too many children are being used as pawns in custody disputes. Workers can help families defuse the battle atmosphere if they understand the background and intricacies of custody laws and engage in action to ensure fair play for the child.

Infant death has extreme emotional and symbolic effects on parents and health care professionals who face the moral and ethical aspects of life and death decisions, complicated by government ideology. Social workers can help with understanding the resulting dilemmas and suggest possible interventions.

Helping professionals will deal increasingly with the theft of children by parents. This article examines the motivations and emotions involved in the issue and explores legislative attempts at control. Attention is given to the difficulties in retrieving lost children.

Social workers helping families deal with the complicated, highly emotional process of genetic counseling must have well-developed professional skills. Although the process of coping with genetic disease is stressful for both families and workers, it can be a process that leads from grief to growth.

Viewing social work values and ethics as a torch held high to unify the profession increases the importance of transmitting them to students. One of the major organizing factors of social work education should be the teaching of values and ethics, and this effort should be intensified in field placement programs.